Broke off a friendship yesterday, because after loving someone for so long its so sad to be smacked in the face with… — Shmoopy Copy Share Image
To humanity, which sometimes seems to be lost and dominated by the power of evil, selfishness and fear, the risen Lord gives… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
A trustworthy marriage has weathered temptation and anger and jealousy, resentment, self-righteousness and a little bit of selfishness. When you get over… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
Selfishness is not living as one wisheThe cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. s to live, it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If we assume, parents give birthto children for their own self-interest/ Selfihness ! So what does a girl born, AfterAll, one day… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it,… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“You are a monster of selfishness and greed, bearing no loyalty to anyone but yourself, and you prance across the stage and… — Lynn Messina Copy Share Image
Did some things that I know that Im going to regret, Caused you pain since the day we met, Now you barely… — Letoya Luckett Copy Share Image
“The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self, where we mope and mow, striking sparks,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Despite advances achieved through objective scientific investigation, and the breaking down of long-standing fears and superstitions, the world is still not a… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth,… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Individualism has come in for an enormous amount of criticism over the years. It still does. It is widely assumed to be… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to… — Christopher West Copy Share Image
Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
When you do things in a selfish way, let alone a destructive way, then you are bound by that karma. Your state… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Narcissists only play for their own business, whereas Distortionists play with other’s business only to gain personal advantage. If you are both,… — Ashish Patel Copy Share Image
In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“As long as there is (worldly) selfish interest, there is no unity. Unity is attained with the ultimate intent of the Self… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There are too many who reverse both the principles and the practice of the Apostles; they become all things to all men,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is a sad commentary on our civilization, however, that war and suffering rather than peacetime living can mobilize human readiness to… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Wisdom of an individual is a distinct,but rare ability to distinguish and define effortlessly the hairline difference between Love Yourself and Your… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up,… — Daniel Smith Copy Share Image
Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me… — Dom Helder Camara Archbishop of Recife in Brazil Copy Share Image
There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you… — C S Lewis Copy Share Image
“My problem was not only drinking; it was selfishness. The booze was leading me to put myself ahead of others, especially my… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image